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Chapter 438 - 80 Artifice Refining Prodigy (4800, one more update today) _2

Chapter 438: Chapter 80 Artifice Refining Prodigy (4800, one more update today) _2

"If it doesn’t succeed," An Jing asked curiously, "will it still produce a Heartless Demon Shedding?"

"Yes," Subdue Evil said, "but such Demon Shedding will be similar to Ignorant Ghosts, lacking independence, and will be controlled by the Heavenly Demon that devoured the insect demon to fight."

"Look, the shape of those four Heartless Demon Sheddings clearly show that they were actively shed by that large snake—it’s quite unusual. Usually, out of ten insect demons, only two or three can achieve success, but it has succeeded four times in a row and is now on its fifth."

Subdue Evil gestured for An Jing to look towards the Water Mirror, where four snake-shaped Demon Sheddings were slowly moving under the lens of Xi Yin.

The first snake shedding had wings but no horns or claws, and its Demonic Qi was the most intense, obviously remnants from Shuo Yueying’s first shedding.

The second snake shedding had four wings and a single horn, with its Demonic Qi being the next most powerful.

The third had four wings and two horns, and dragon spines grew on its back. At first glance, it already bore a faint resemblance to a dragon.

The fourth snake shedding even had both feet grown out, and calling it a dragon shedding would make many people believe it.

The more complete the Demon Shedding, the less the Demonic Qi, but the inherent Divine Abnormality is stronger, especially the fourth one. The Demonic Qi is not very strong, and the effectiveness of the Thunder Method might even be discounted, but it is surrounded by a strong Metal Attribute Gang Qi around its whole body, making it the most difficult to deal with.

Just as Subdue Evil said, these Demon Sheddings moved stiffly, without any variation from start to finish, only circling back and forth in a fixed area, devoid of any intelligence or Spiritual Light.

If one had to say...

"Like an NPC in a game that only follows a fixed action template?"

An Jing understood it in terms of his previous life and suddenly felt enlightened, "Then indeed, aside from their stats, they pose no challenge."

"Moreover, their strongest Demonic Qi is likely to be much less effective on me, with the reinforcement of the Defense Against Evil Field and Ghost Scale inner armor," he added.

"Indeed," Subdue Evil acknowledged An Jing’s assessment, "And look, these Demon Sheddings—where the original body shed its skin, that’s their ’Yuan Dong.’ As long as you shatter that, they will collapse on the spot."

Well, that was a relief. Powerful but unintelligent, with a significant mechanical weakness, this immediately put An Jing’s mind at ease.

The observation of the Demon Sheddings continued.

Every hour, the four Demon Sheddings would launch an attack on the Primordial Spirit Immaculate Wood, then be invariably repelled by the Spirit Wood, after which they would rest for an hour and continue attacking in an endless cycle.

Although the Primordial Spirit Wood appeared to be unspent, under Xi Yin’s detection, its Spiritual Power strength was indeed declining—if the current rate continued, in about a month and a half, the Primordial Spirit Wood’s defense strength would drop below a critical value and be breached by the Demon Sheddings.

"Lucky for us we’ve made it here early."

At this moment, An Jing once again felt the importance of quick action—if he could not integrate Linjiang City to deal with the problem of demonized ferocious beasts in the Beast Tide in the shortest time possible, in that month and a half he would probably be at his wits’ end. He would be fortunate just to handle the issues related to the Beast Tide, let alone discover the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object within the Primordial Spirit, or even start exploring Broken Blade Mountain.

A step faster means being ahead every step of the way. Once An Jing had determined the intelligence, he immediately returned to Linjiang City to start preparing the corresponding armaments.

The Great Void Passage was still cooling down, and his initial goal was to learn Artifact Refining and craft the [Dragon Storing Bottle].

It was only after An Jing arrived at the Refinement Chamber prepared for him by Bai Qinghan, complete with Spiritual Fire Fire Seed and a full set of blacksmith tools, that he learned an astonishing fact from Subdue Evil.

——He had already known how to refine artifacts.

"What do you mean?"

An Jing was puzzled, but Subdue Evil’s explanation was very direct: "The Taibai Luminous Godly Ban is a body tempering method that uses the body as an Artifact—what do you think that means?"

An Jing understood, which meant that the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban itself was an Art of Refinement.

He could refine using his own body as an Artifact, so refining ordinary Magic Artifacts was simply within reach.

Of course, looking at the specifics, Body Refinement and Artifact Refining still had their differences.

"Heaven and Earth bear countless Spiritual Materials, and the essence of Artifact Refining is to transform them into forms that suit our needs," he said.

"The furnace fire is the ’Core of the Instrument’, the heart is fire, known as blazing up, a surge of Qi igniting the spirit of the Artifact, hence the need for Spiritual Fire when refining. The better the Spiritual Fire, the stronger the power it can provide to the Magic Artifact."

"Blowing wind is the ’Instrument Lung’, lungs are metal, known as following transformation. Without the wind to fan the flames, the fire will not flourish, the spirit will not thrive, and the raw materials cannot be melted, unable to change shape according to one’s will. Special Spirit Gold requires special winds to smelt, and the pairing of these elements is the secret of the Great Sects."

"The rapid cooling material is the ’Instrument Kidney’, kidneys are water, known as moisturizing downwards. Without the rapid cooling water at the end, metal cannot solidify, fire cannot disperse, the Spirit Wood of the Instrument, that is the life and spirituality, cannot be nurtured. Eventually, it cannot take root and sprout, penetrating all parts, being contained as a whole, which is returning to the Instrument’s earth."

Subdue Evil explained the essence of Artifact Refining to An Jing in the simplest terms of the Five Elements: "The human body naturally possesses the Five Elements, and although the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban is essentially the supreme tome of metal, it does not exclusively revere Taibai. Think carefully about the process of your cultivation, then envision the Magic Artifact you want to create as an embryo, gradually giving it shape, imprinting Magic Prohibitions..."

"Wait, you got it already?!"

As Subdue Evil explained, An Jing started working directly.

He ignited the Spiritual Fire, took out the ore, this Spiritual Fire called ’Stone Marrow Fire Seed’, was from the original core of earth fires burning deep within the ground, while the ore was refined Mysterious Iron, mixed with the essence of mountain copper, all part of Linlang Commerce Chamber’s reserves, and now it was all his advantage.

An Jing raised his hand, rotated the Lesser Yang Swordsmanship with Pupil Fire, activated the Stone Marrow Fire Seed to light the furnace fire, then put his hands directly into the semi-molten copper and iron in the furnace fire with his flesh body to sense the fire temperature and momentum. Once he got a good grasp, he took out the semi-molten copper and iron and placed them on top of the furnace in the crucible to continue refining.